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No faith, no honesty in men; all perjur'd, |
All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers. |
Ah, where's my man? Give me some aqua vitae. |
These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old. |
Shame come to Romeo! |
Jul. Blister'd be thy tongue |
For such a wish! He was not born to shame. |
Upon his brow shame is asham'd to sit; |
For 'tis a throne where honour may be crown'd |
Sole monarch of the universal earth. |
O, what a beast was I to chide at him! |
Nurse. Will you speak well of him that kill'd your cousin? |
Jul. Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? |
Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name |
When I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it? |
But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin? |
That villain cousin would have kill'd my husband. |
Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring! |
Your tributary drops belong to woe, |
Which you, mistaking, offer up to joy. |
My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain; |
And Tybalt's dead, that would have slain my husband. |
All this is comfort; wherefore weep I then? |
Some word there was, worser than Tybalt's death, |
That murd'red me. I would forget it fain; |
But O, it presses to my memory |
Like damned guilty deeds to sinners' minds! |
'Tybalt is dead, and Romeo- banished.' |
That 'banished,' that one word 'banished,' |
Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Tybalt's death |
Was woe enough, if it had ended there; |
Or, if sour woe delights in fellowship |
And needly will be rank'd with other griefs, |
Why followed not, when she said 'Tybalt's dead,' |
Thy father, or thy mother, nay, or both, |
Which modern lamentation might have mov'd? |
But with a rearward following Tybalt's death, |
'Romeo is banished'- to speak that word |
Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet, |
All slain, all dead. 'Romeo is banished'- |
There is no end, no limit, measure, bound, |
In that word's death; no words can that woe sound. |
Where is my father and my mother, nurse? |
Nurse. Weeping and wailing over Tybalt's corse. |
Will you go to them? I will bring you thither. |
Jul. Wash they his wounds with tears? Mine shall be spent, |
When theirs are dry, for Romeo's banishment. |
Take up those cords. Poor ropes, you are beguil'd, |
Both you and I, for Romeo is exil'd. |
He made you for a highway to my bed; |
But I, a maid, die maiden-widowed. |
Come, cords; come, nurse. I'll to my wedding bed; |
And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead! |
Nurse. Hie to your chamber. I'll find Romeo |
To comfort you. I wot well where he is. |
Hark ye, your Romeo will be here at night. |
I'll to him; he is hid at Laurence' cell. |
Jul. O, find him! give this ring to my true knight |
And bid him come to take his last farewell. |
Exeunt. |
Scene III. |
Friar Laurence's cell. |
Enter Friar [Laurence]. |
Friar. Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man. |
Affliction is enanmour'd of thy parts, |
And thou art wedded to calamity. |
Enter Romeo. |
Rom. Father, what news? What is the Prince's doom |
What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand |
That I yet know not? |
Friar. Too familiar |
Is my dear son with such sour company. |
I bring thee tidings of the Prince's doom. |
Rom. What less than doomsday is the Prince's doom? |
Friar. A gentler judgment vanish'd from his lips- |
Not body's death, but body's banishment. |
Rom. Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say 'death'; |
For exile hath more terror in his look, |
Much more than death. Do not say 'banishment.' |
Friar. Hence from Verona art thou banished. |
Be patient, for the world is broad and wide. |
Rom. There is no world without Verona walls, |
But purgatory, torture, hell itself. |
Hence banished is banish'd from the world, |
And world's exile is death. Then 'banishment' |
Is death misterm'd. Calling death 'banishment,' |
Thou cut'st my head off with a golden axe |
And smilest upon the stroke that murders me. |
Friar. O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness! |
Thy fault our law calls death; but the kind Prince, |
Taking thy part, hath rush'd aside the law, |
And turn'd that black word death to banishment. |
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